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Heavy snow causes travel mayhem in northern Europe

the Europe's third-busiest hub was able to re-open one runway for takeoffs only on the afternoon, after being forced to close completely due to heavy snow on 10 December 2017.

LONDON – The heaviest snowfall in four years in Britain caused travel mayhem Sunday, while more than 300 flights were cancelled in Germany&39;s busiest airport and a ferry ran aground in the French port of Calais.

Hundreds of air passengers were stranded in Frankfurt, Germany&39;s financial capital, as well as Britain, and many took to Twitter to complain.

Some 330 flights were cancelled by 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) after heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures struck the region around Frankfurt, a spokesman for airport operator Fraport told AFP.

The airport ,Germany&39;s largest air hub and the home base for major carrier Lufthansa, had been scheduled to handle a total of 1,260 flights over the day.